“We are confident that no one can harm us if God is with us….there is nothing more we can do except depend on almighty God. If a person does, then he is assured that the Almighty will help him, have mercy on him and he will succeed.” Yes, this does in fact sound like Presidential …
The idiom “the calm before the storm” signifies a quiet period before great excitement or activity. In case our leaders are missing it, the calm is over and the world is directly in the storm’s wake. They are missing all the clues that their western based hegemonic system is just not working, yet no one …
US Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, got together with his French counterpart and decided to take a trip down to the besieged town of Hama. It is true that the Assad family is unacceptably terrorizing its people for wanting to change many of the current governing policies in Syria, but is it the role of …
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Tricia DeGennaro and James Rubin say an attack on a Kabul luxury hotel may complicate negotiations with the Taliban….on CNN
Another day, another scandal. New York Representative Anthony Weiner is the next to decide to take the easy road to fame by photographing his body parts and tweeting them to a 21-year-old college student. In the good old days we called this sexual harassment. Today we just call it misjudgment. As a woman, I am …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress this week to outline his plans for peace. It was, as expected, a love fest. Congress reacted to him like teenagers do to Beyonce and Lady GaGa. They drooled all over him. I couldn’t help thinking that if they salivated like that …
Israel has tried to remain quiet through the democratic revolutionary movements going on surrounding the country. Other than its normal rants more recently against Hamas, now an official part of the Palestinian government like it or not, Netanyahu’s government has been silent. Then came Nakba Day when the Palestinians remember the exodus of their people …
President Obama said it in his Cairo speech: “tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.” Further, he should have added, this continued through the West’s worldwide support of …
The war in Afghanistan is now in its ninth year and it is really difficult to find any positive change. Leadership is lacking, and though the President and his cabinet inherited this war, their approach is strikingly unchanged: more troops, little oversight and minimal planning. Further, despite a much needed domestic reminder that America is …
The approximately 91,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan that were leaked to Wikileaks.org caused cries of outrage. Unfortunately this outrage was for all the wrong reasons. Headlines read “Pakistan helping Taliban,” “The [Afghan] war takes a hit,” and the like. What they should have read is “Heads Role” and “WikiLeaks: Founder and Leaker arrested …
